Celestia was sitting on her throne with a haunted look on her face. She couldn't believe what had transpired.

Chris was back, her beloved had finally returned after two thousand years of painful waiting.

But he didn't remember her.

She had always known that if he were to come back that he would not remember anything to do with her or Equestria, but it didn't make it hurt any less.

And now he was gravely injured and most likely suffering from an excruciating headache, running through the Everfree forest which was filled with dangerous creatures…and she could not go after him herself.

No her royal duty always came first, whether it was Luna having social problems or herself having a mental breakdown.

"I just want to have him back!" She thought angrily. "But no my subjects and their problems however minuscule and tiresome have to come first. I just want him to remember me, hold me again and take care of me until everything fades away."

Now most would think these thoughts were unbecoming of a Princess. But truth be told she was tired. Tired of being alone, tired of losing everyone that mattered to her…Tired of watching everyone grow old together while she remained forever young. Sure Luna was there with her but at that moment Celestia found herself wanting more than the love of her sister.

She needed Chris and all it would take was a simple touch to rekindle the flames that fuelled their past relationship. It had been a brilliant stroke of magic done in the desperation of a terrified mare. For when she had produced a bond. A bond that required no more than a touch to ignite. She had carefully taken every ounce of love and care that he had for her…

And locked it inside of portion of his soul, waiting for her touch to release it.

Celestia felt herself smile at this, for if everything worked out he would be hers once again and this time there would be no nobles to halt her from naming him her Prince.

She felt herself get slightly giddy at these thoughts and had to put a hoof over her mouth to stop herself from giggling like a school filly. A guard in front of her looked back at the Princess and gave her a raised eyebrow but quickly turned away again as Celestia looked at him with a raised eyebrow of her own.

Being a Princess had rather impressive intimidation perks.

Suddenly Celestia felt a familiar tingle inside of her mind and pressed against it mentally, opening the connection between herself and her sister.

"Luna is all well? Where is Chris? Is he alright? What's going on?"

She could feel her sister recoil at her bombardment of questions and fell silent, offering a mental apology and waiting for her to talk.

"Calm yourself Sister, we have found Chris…but there's a problem."

Celestia felt her heartbeat become rapid as she feared the worst.

"W-What problem Lulu? Is he…"

"Relax Tia he is not dead. We found him but he managed to run away. Not only that but we have lost him in a nearby village."

Celestia felt herself frown at this.

"Lost him in a village? Which one and how?"

"It is a village roughly ten miles from the northern part of the Everfree forest and is called Hoofington. As for how, we found drag marks coming out of the forest but they stopped a few minutes from the village. Twilight believes that somepony may have taken him in or ponynapped him, but there is far too many houses and it will take us a great deal of time to search for him as we are."

Celestia didn't know whether to feel happy that they had located his whereabouts or upset that Chris had been potentially ponynapped by somepony.

"Okay Luna I will put on an alert for my guards to search for him. I will also input some notifications to be handed out by them detailing Chris and what to do if anypony sees him."

"Good idea Tia, hopefully we will find him by tonight."

Celestia sent her a mental nod of agreement and turned off the mental communication.

"Guards to me!" She commanded.

Every guard within the vicinity arrived in no less than ten seconds, before standing to attention and awaiting their Princesses orders.

"I need a handful of you to go to the village of Hoofington and locate a creature known as a Human. For those of you who saw him earlier I want you to inform your fellow guards with his appearance. Once this is done I want you to put out details of him around that particular village, so with luck he will be found by tonight."

One of her guards stepped forwards. It was her Lieutenant Firefly, a Pegasus with a red mane and tail, black fur and kind purple eyes.

"Excuse me Princess but do you have any more details about this…Human that could help us in this search?"

Celestia smiled inwardly as she knew precisely how many intimate details she could give her, but kept those to herself and merely told her his basic information.

"His name is Chris and if I were to guess I would say he is around eighteen years of age. I would also hazard a guess that he is frightened and hurt, so approach him with kindness and I'm sure he will not show any hostility."

Firefly smiled as she took this information in, knowing that it was enough to get her job done. But in any case she had seen her Princess when the Human fell out of the portal…She wasn't a fool, she knew that this Chris meant a lot to her Princess. But if anything that made her more determined to retrieve him.

If anyone deserved to be happy it was Princess Celestia.

Roughly Forty Five Minutes Ago- The Everfree Forest, Equestria, Date And Year Unknown

Chris was running as fast as he could go, holding his stomach with pressure to try and keep his blood in whilst attempting to fight off the horrible migraine he had going on.

"What's going on? Why am I in a different world? And why on earth is my head pounding?!"

He looked forward and despite it still being around four in the afternoon the forest was so dense that darkness had spread all around him very quickly. He suddenly heard distant movement coming from behind him and hid behind a large oak tree, sliding down it and trying his best to stop breathing shallowly.

The distant movement became very loud clopping and flapping sounds as a group of ponies rushed past where had just been, talking to one another but moving so fast that Chris only caught snippets of what they were saying.

"He couldn't have run so far Princess, he has to be around this area somewhere."

"Hmm I agree Twilight, let's split up and spread out. Perhaps we shall find him quicker that way…and with that wound he has I would suggest we move quickly.

"Of course Princess."

"Call me Luna Twilight, now is not the time for formalities my friend."

Chris heard the clopping and flapping stop and held his breath. He bit his lip nervously and with some effort on his part, peeked carefully around his tree to see what these ponies were doing.

He noticed another winged pony with a horn, but this one was smaller than Celestia and a shade of purple instead of white. He knew there were more but he had to quickly withdraw his head as the smaller…winged, horned pony turned around in his direction.

"What am I going to do…I'm feeling weaker with each passing second and if I don't find some sort of medical aid I'm not going to make it…but then again that's what might get me home. If I die here then I might just wake up from this crazy world. If talking ponies are real then who's to say that isn't either?"

Chris snapped out of his thinking tirade as he heard a distinctive clopping sound extremely close where he was hiding.

"Chris! I know you can hear my voice so please listen to me. I am not going to harm you, none of us are going to harm you. You are injured and need medical attention or you may perish. So please just come on out."

Chris pondered on what she said and winced as his stab wound flared up again, letting out a little whimper of pain by accident.

"Shit…"

He heard the clopping getting closer and closer as the seconds went by. It was precise and slow but it was extremely close to his position.

"Okay on the count of three. One…Two…Three!"

Chris pushed himself off of the ground and sprinted as fast as he possibly could from the tree. He took a brief glance behind him and frowned when he saw no one there. He looked forward again and had to force himself to stop running, nearly tripping over himself but catching a tree branch to keep his balance.

Princess Luna was in front of him, her eyes wide as she saw his wound and the amount of blood that had stained his top and coat. She looked at his eyes and saw them darting around the area, looking for a way to escape.

"Chris you need to calm yourself or you will only aggravate your injury further." She said calmly, taking baby steps as she moved towards him.

Chris saw this and backed away quickly, putting his fists up in self defense and making Luna freeze. She didn't want him to fear her. It felt awful coming from someone she used to look up to as a brother.

"Oh Tia, how you must have felt when he rejected you earlier."

"S-Stay away from me. I don't want any trouble, I just want to go home." He said fearfully.

Luna flinched as he said this. If Chris said that to her sister then she doubted that Celestia would be able to keep in her sorrow…Or abide to his wishes.

"Chris listen to me please. I'm not going to hurt you, I just need to get a little closer so that I can heal you."

Chris narrowed his eyes suspiciously but lowered his fists.

"And what then?" he asked cautiously.

"Then I will take you to see my sister. No doubt you have questions and she may be the only one to answer them."

As she said this she edged a little closer to the scared Human, but felt a little relieved that he didn't back away. As she got closer she noticed his eyes become somewhat glazed and unfocused, before he suddenly started to speak.

"Come now Lulu you're as smart as Tia and you know it. Stop belittling your intelligence because it's not-"

Chris put a hand over his mouth to stop himself from talking. His eyes were focused again but they were also wide in fear. Luna couldn't help a smile as she heard him speak. Chris had always lifted her spirits when they were young, never allowing her to become sorry for herself or jealous of her sister.

She could only wonder what would have happened if he were still around when she became Nightmare Moon.

Unfortunately he had begun to back away from her again. His eyes were wide with fear and his body was trembling. Whether from the same reason or from loss of blood.

"W-What was that, d-did you make me say…"

Luna saw what was about to happen before it did, lighting up her horn with magic and attempting to hold him still.

But like her sister tried earlier, she was met with the same result.

He magic just bounced off of him as he began to run away from her. Luna cursed silently and chased after him, but quickly lost him as he went even further through the dense trees.

Chris had no idea where he was running too but anywhere away from her was enough for him. He had no idea what had just happened.

"What happened? One second she's talking and the next I'm saying something without meaning too. Was it her? Or is this place just driving me insane?"

Chris blinked as light suddenly hit his eyes and realized that he was close to the exit. He looked forward and saw a gap that led out onto a grassy hill. With a wheezing breath he ran out onto it and looked around. Directly down the hill was a large village that looked similar to the one he had just been in. He saw a large sign next to what he guessed what its entrance.

"Welcome To Hoofington. Have a pleasant stay." He said out loud.

Chris shook his head and was about to go down the hill but felt another wave of horrible pain fill his head. He clutched it with his hands and gave off a howl of pain, before falling to his knees.

Just before he lost all consciousness. Just before he closed his eyes and welcomed in the darkness, the abyss of peace. He felt someone touching his lips with their own and opened his eyes weakly.

In front of him was a pair of intelligent blue eyes full of love and care. He felt their lips remove themselves from his own and smile at him.

"Come on Chris let's go and see the sunset. I ache to relax with you again."

Chris saw the transparent ghost of a winged, horned mare running away from him before winking at him and disappearing with a smile.

"Alicorn….Tia…"

Chris closed his eyes and collapsed onto the ground, all feeling slowly fading away from him….

The next thing he knew he was laying on a small bed, bandages wrapped around his naked torso. Chris put a hand to his lightly pounding head and sat up, hissing in pain as his wound flared up angrily. He heard the sound of clopping and looked at a door as it opened, revealing a middle aged mare with soft brown eyes, long brown hair and a creamy coat of fur.

Chris's eyes widened in fear and he attempted to get up but was quickly pushed back down gently by the mare.

"Ah ah don't try to get up sweetie. Your wound is healing nicely but you don't want to aggravate it none."

Chris found himself listening to this mare. She looked friendly enough and gave off a motherly vibe that he found quite nice.

"Where….where am I? How did I get here?"

"You're in Hoofington young stallion and my husband brought you here." She replied kindly. "Why I was afraid you wouldn't make it with the amount of blood over you. But count your lucky stars that I know a bit of old fashioned medical treatment."

Chris smiled up at this mare. Her found her accent to be odd as it reminded him of that one transfer student who came from Minnesota. But none the less he quickly found himself being taken in by her gentle personality.

"What's your name miss?" He asked quietly.

"It's Comfort Mane young stallion. And yourself?"

"My name's Chris…Chris Higgott."

The mare raised an eyebrow at him but nodded to herself and started to talk gently but quickly.

"I thought it might be sweetie. There's been some of the royal guard running around the village looking for you for the past six hours."

Chris's eyes widened in fear again and he attempted to get up again, but was yet again pushed back down.

"No, no don't you worry. I took one good look at you and knew you're a good stallion. Now I don't know why the Princess wants you so badly, so if you could tell me it would be a good repayment for me cleaning your injury."

Chris sighed in frustration and put a hand to his now rapidly pounding forehead. It was strange really. In the forest it got less painful the more he ran away but now it seemed to be getting worse after every passing minute.

"To be honest I don't know." He replied. "One second I was in my own world and the next I'm not. Then I've got this Princess Celestia running after me as well as the rest of them. I honestly haven't done anything wrong and I don't know why she wants me so badly."

Comfort Mane hummed in agreement and breathed out a confused sigh.

"Well the Princess is well loved by everypony and I don't think she would want to harm you."

"I don't think so either, it's just that…. Never mind."

Chris looked down at the floor but felt his face get lifted up by Comfort Mane's hoof.

"What Chris?"

Chris sighed and rested himself back onto his pillow.

"I've been…Seeing things since I've arrived." He explained nervously.

"What exactly have you been seeing?" Comfort asked softly.

"I don't know…visions or hallucinations. It happens so fast that I can barely remember what I saw. The last one I remember is just before I passed out and woke up here."

Comfort Mane tilted her head in confusion and sat down on the floor, nodding for him to continue.

"I'm not sure what I saw to be honest. I was so weak that I could barely keep my eyes open…But I remember the feeling of someone's lips on mine and-"

"Somepony's." Comfort corrected gently.

"What?"

"You said someone's not somepony's."

Chris felt himself smile inwardly at their way of talking but figured that he should comply with it for now.

"Okay Comfort. I remember feeling somepony's lips on mine and then…I think she ran away…or ahead of me. Then she said…something about seeing a sunset and…something else. I'm sorry it's all jumbled around, I think my brain has gone numb from losing so much blood."

Comfort Mane pursed her lips in thought but shook her head and smiled at him.

"Well do you at least remember what this pony looked like?" she asked.

Chris thought hard on what he had seen. He remembered a flash of white fur…intelligent blue eyes and… wings and a horn. But what did that make her?

"I remember seeing a lot of things. What do you call somepony who has both wings and a horn? Because I've only seen ponies having one or the other, or none at all."

Comfort Mane's eyes widened as he asked this, unbelieving that he wouldn't know such a simple piece of Equestrian knowledge.

"Well we have Unicorns which have horns. This allows them to use magic. Then we have Pegasi who have wings to fly and can also control the weather. And then we have ponies like my husband and I who are just simple folk. Although we are a lot stronger than the other two. The only ponies who have both a horn and wings are the Princess's. They're called Alicorns."

Chris's eyes widened in realization as she explained this, remembering the one that had appeared before he passed out.

"Right that's it! The one from before. She was an Alicorn…she had white fur, blue eyes and…something on her flank but I can't remember what it was."

Chris held his head in frustration as it started to pound harder, but chose to ignore it and focus back on Comfort Mane.

"An Alicorn? Are you sure?" she asked, recognizing the half description of the Alicorn in question.

Chris nodded and sat up again, his headache softening for the moment.

Suddenly a door was opened and closed quickly as a Stallion around the same age as Comfort walked in. He looked at Chris and gave him a wide smile.

"Well look who finally decided to wake up. Although I can't complain, it's not like you were heavy to carry."

Comfort looked at her husband with a dreamy smile and kissed him.

"How is it outside honey?" she asked, her voice laced with care and love.

"The guards are still here sweetums. I don't think they're going to leave until they find this young Stallion here."

Chris suddenly felt a pang of guilt as he realized that these two ponies were sheltering him from the guards, obviously not wanting him to be found.

"I'm so sorry for this trouble I'm causing you sir, I didn't realize that guards would be sent to find me." Chris said sadly.

The stallion put his hoof on Chris's shoulder and gave him a friendly smile.

"Now don't you worry son. I'm sure why these guards want you so badly but I knew when I found you that you were a good honest stallion."

Chris smiled at him as he said this.

"Hehe your wife said that."

The stallion looked at his wife who stuck her tongue at him teasingly.

"Well she and I are pretty much always in sync young…Chris is it?"

"Yes sir." He replied.

"None of that sir business Chris, just call me Hard Labour."

Chris laughed as he heard this, unable to stop himself.

"Sorry but is it alright if I just call you Labour? I could call you Hard but…"

Hard Labour flushed at this but gave off a good natured chuckle while Comfort giggled at the two of them.

Chris suddenly realized that his coat and t-shirt were nowhere to be seen and frowned slightly.

"Um excuse me but do you know where my coat and t-shirt are?"

"You mean the clothing you had on you? I washed then earlier and left them to dry in the other room." Replied Comfort assuredly.

Hard Labour suddenly stood up and walked over to the front door.

"I've got to pick up some groceries from the neighbors for dinner. You can stay for it if you want Chris?"

Chris was about to say no but his stomach gave off a loud growl that made Labour and Comfort laugh heartily.

"I guess that settles it then. I'll be back in a few minutes." He said, before opening the door and leaving Comfort and Chris alone.

Chris was silent for a moment or two before looking up at Comfort and giving her a hug. Comfort gladly returned it but was careful to avoid his injury.

"Thank you Comfort. You didn't have to do any of this for me and yet you still did…this place is so different from my world."

"Well it was my husband who carried you on his back Chris but I would have done the same if I had found you. Anypony would have really, I don't think anypony around here would leave a pony bleeding on the ground."

Chris released her from his hug and smiled. It was so weird for him to have any of this happen to him. Not just arriving in another world but having someone take care of him. All his life he had to look after himself. Buy his own food, clothing, get a job as soon as he was able and get a college course for a hope of having a career as well as the necessary equipment for it.

Anyone at his world would have left him for dead if they saw him bleeding. Maybe a nice one would call for an ambulance but they would probably leave him alone to wait for it.

His happy thoughts were interrupted however we he heard a crashing of glass, followed by the room they were in being engulfed in flames. He was thrown backwards by Comfort so that he didn't get burnt but heard her scream in pain as fire surrounded her. He hit his head hard on the floor and for a second or two was too dazed to move. He snapped out of it however when he heard a wail of pain coming from Comfort. He stood up quickly and nearly screamed himself as he felt his wound re-open. He shook it off however and grabbed the blanket on the bed. He then threw it on Comfort and picked her up, yelling in pain as his hands were burnt from the fire around her but refused to let her go. He put her head onto his chest and hunched protectively so that she couldn't get burnt by any other flames, before running carefully through the small house. He reached main room where his coat was and grimaced in annoyance as he saw it covered in fire.

"Fuck the coat! I need to get Comfort and myself out of here!"

He went over to the front door but jumped away as it caught fire. He looked around and saw a window, but it was too small for him to get out of. Even Comfort wouldn't be able to fit through it. He heard her coughing beneath the blanket and felt himself becoming desperate. He didn't know where the fire had come from but she didn't deserve this. She had taken care of him and he was going to be damned if she died because he couldn't save her.

Chris gritted his teeth in fear and braced himself, before running shoulder first into the front door. He knocked it down and rolled out of it, protecting comfort as best he could with his body. Chris rolled away from the burning house and forced himself onto his knees. He then removed the blanket from Comfort and felt nothing but sorrow as he saw her burnt hooves and fur. It wasn't too bad but her hooves weren't going to be able to touch anything for a while.

"Comfort are you alright?" he asked, coughing harshly with his hand in front of his mouth.

"I-I-I'm fine…Are you okay? Your skin is burnt!" she replied, coughing herself but looking at him with concern.

Chris could feel the skin around his back stinging like mad as well as his now opened wound bleeding heavily again.

"I'll be fine, I'm more concerned about you." He replied with a chuckle.

Chris was suddenly aware of a struggle in front of him and noticed a couple of guards carrying something magically. As they got closer Chris instantly recognized who they were carrying.

"Dan?"

Said Human suddenly noticed him and grinned maliciously. He then lowered his eyes at something in his hand, unable to actually move it himself.

Chris looked down at his hand and noticed it had a couple of broken shards in it, as well as some burn marks.

Two and two clicked together and Chris realized what Dan was trying to tell him.

Dan had done it.

He had somehow made a Molotov and had thrown it in Comforts house.

And in that very moment, Chris felt something inside of him start to break. Dan had hurt the only being in his entire life that had every treated him as her own son.

And he had nearly lost that.

Chris looked down at Comfort and noticed Hard Labour next to her, saying something to him but it was drowned out by a white noise.

Chris got to his feet, uncaring of his open wound and started walking over to Dan. Said walk became a jog, then a run and finally a sprint as he roared with the utmost fury he could muster. The guards saw him coming but were too late to stop him and Chris tackled Dan out of their magical grip. They both landed on the ground with Chris on top of Dan.

Dan looked up and saw Chris on him, breathing heavily.

"Aww did I hurt your little friend? So sad." He mocked carelessly.

And that was the moment when Chris finally snapped.

He punched Dan in his face, and then again, and again, and again. He wasn't aware of anything else but Dan's face and his own fists, both of which were becoming bloody.

"YOU MONSTER!" He yelled at Dan, who by this point was half conscious.

Left fist, right fist, left fist, right fist. On and on he punched Dan, vaguely aware of someone trying to pull him off of him.

"YOU RUINED MY LIFE AND NOW YOU TRY AND KILL THEM!"

Dan's face was a bloody pulp but still Chris raged, refusing to give his aching limbs the rest they were screaming for.

"WAS STABBING ME NOT ENOUGH?"

Chris felt a lot of hooves trying to pull him off of Dan, but his rage was just too strong and he refused to budge.

"I'M GOING TO KI-!"

A pair of intelligent blue eyes appeared before Chris, looking at him lovingly whilst he felt a hoof caress his face.

"Why did you keep attacking that stallion Chris?"

"Because he hurt you Tia…" Chris replied automatically. He felt tears rolling down his face against his will as this ghost spoke to him.

The Alicorn shook her head and smiled at him sadly.

"Do you feel any better because of it? Does it make you happy that his mother is crying and that he barely made it to the healers?"

"No…I feel empty."

The transparent Alicorn put her lips against Chris's and kissed him slowly, before pulling back and smiling at him.

"And that's because revenge isn't always the right way."

Chris opened his eyes and realized that he had kept them closed the whole time. He also realized that mere seconds had passed before he felt himself being pulled off of Dan and onto his feet. He looked down at Dan who was still breathing abet shallowly and then to his fists which were bloody and bruised.

Chris looked around and noticed that Luna and a handful of ponies next to her were looking at him in both fear and approval. He shook his head and made his way over to Comfort Mane, collapsing onto his knees next to her and letting loose a few tears.

"I-I'm sorry you had to see that…I didn't mean to….I didn't…"

Comfort sat up slowly and put her front legs around him, careful to avoid touching him with her burnt hooves.

"It's okay, you stopped and he's still alive. That's what matters."

"It's my fault though. I don't know how but he came after me, you're hurt because of me…I need to…to."

Chris slowly removed Comfort from him and kissed her forehead. He nodded at Labour who nodded back approvingly and thankfully.

Chris got to his feet and started to walk away from them, knowing exactly where he was going, having seen it briefly before he passed out.

He was aware of guards and most likely Luna and her friends following him but he just didn't care. He continued walking for a few more minutes, wondering somewhere in his head why the guards weren't trying to stop him but not caring as he wouldn't let them if they tried.

Chris eventually reached his goal as he finally made it to the edge of Hoofington. He couldn't walk any further without falling a few thousand feet and Chris wondered if that was why the guards hadn't tried to stop him, knowing that he would be cornered and have nowhere else to run.

But Chris was tired of running.

He was tired of Dan, tired of his pathetic mediocre life, tired of getting innocent beings hurt and most importantly he was just plain tired.

Tired of living.

He looked over the edge and smiled to himself. There was no way he could survive a fall of this height.

And that was the idea.

He turned around and looked at the ponies, each and every one of them had wide eyes as they realized what he was about to do. Except Luna, who had her eyes closed and seemed to be whispering to herself urgently.

"Huh probably more magic…"

Chris wondered absentmindedly if he should say something…but really what was the point?

He closed his eyes and allowed himself to fall backwards, smiling sadly as he felt no ground underneath him. He vaguely heard the ponies screaming at him to stop but it all got carried away as the wind swept past his ear, deafening him to the world.

Then suddenly…He stopped.

Chris opened his eyes abruptly as he felt something inside of him open up and flood his senses. He couldn't explain it, touch it, smell it or taste it.

But it was there.

He looked at his waist as noticed a golden light shining around his bloody torso. He felt his wound close up and the blood dry up slowly. He was feeling confused and slightly light headed, especially now that the pounding within it had finally ceased.

He felt himself being turned by somepony's hooves, turned until he faced them...faced her.

He looked at those intelligent blue eyes, eyes that looked at him lovingly.

Eyes that he had seen before.

He saw her horn shining with a golden glow and felt himself becoming drowsy and comfortable.

Comfortable in her hooves.

All the weight of what had happened to him seemed to lift up and float away, relieving him on its burden.

And it was there that he drifted off to the world of dreams and impossible things, held in Celestia's embrace as she looked at him with a smile that held so many emotions. Said smile became a kiss, as she placed her lips against his.

A kiss two thousand years in the waiting.

Celestia used her powerful wings to slowly fly up into the night sky, her Human held close to her tightly so that she not lose him again. She saw the others watching her with smiles and questioning glances.

But they could wait.

For now it was just her, Chris and the romantic shine from the moonlight.

The Alicorn and her Prince.

Author's Notes:

And second chapter done XD

You want more, tell me and I'll get right on it :)

But in the meantime I'ma go read and listen to music >:)